On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jim Grossl wrote:

> Does anyone know of any sites that are
> publishing MD5 (or equivalent) binary checksum 
> values for the default install of Redhat 7.3?
> I've been on Redhats site and done a Google
> search but nothing presented itself. Thanks much.

They sign their packages with GPG.

So you can verify the packages before you install them. You can also use 
these signed packages to verify the installed files.

See also: man rpm

Hugo.

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